Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 20:57:39 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how long does it take to low level format a 9 GB Baraccuda ? Message-ID: <199802280257.UAA17307@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net> of "Fri, 27 Feb 1998 16:08:19 CST." <19980227160819.41343@mcs.net>
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Karl Denninger writes: > > As a matter of good practice, its probably a good idea to turn on a new > drive in its working orientation, allow the temperature to stabilize, and > then low-level format it. "As a matter of good practice" is it advisable to low level format a new SCSI drive at all? The only time I low level format a drive is as a last resort before crating it up and sending it back. But am leaning against even that. Last year we got a batch of (50) ST15150's. About 4 were problems and got low level formatted before being put into production use. Those lasted about 5 months. Can't really credit that stinky quality to Seagate as a stinky purchasing process resulted in drives that were handled too many times by the unknowing before finally being delivered into my caring hands. It was so bad we sent back a number of Kinsgton DE100 enclosures because they arrived bent. With HD's installed. And cables pinched. And termination still enabled on the HD (with 2 installed per box). -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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